Animals

Dr. Silvia Torrecillas

Website
Section Board Member

IRTA, Aquaculture Program, Centre de la Ràpita, Crta. Poble Nou, km 5.5, La Ràpita, 43540, Spain
Interests: fish nutrition; marine aquaculture; fish physiology; antioxidants; fish diseases; mucosal health; dietary supplements; functional feeds
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Dr. Massimo Trabalza-Marinucci

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Via San Costanzo 4, 06126 Perugia, Italy
Interests: animal feeding; digestive metabolism; rumen ecosystem; functional feeds; essential oils; polyphenols; nutraceutics; small ruminants; chickens
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Donato Traversa

Website
Section Board Member

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University Teaching Veterinary Hospital, Location Piano d'Accio, 64100 Teramo, Italy
Interests: Feline and canine parasitology; intestinal and cardiopulmonary nematodes; vector-borne diseases; anthelmintics; drug resistance
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Angela Trocino

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science (BCA), University of Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, Legnaro, Padova, Italy
Interests: rearing systems and welfare of growing and reproducing rabbits feeding and nutrition of rabbits feeding and nutrition of broilers myopathies in broiler chickens freshness; nutritional quality and safety of fish
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Éric Troncy

Website
Section Board Member

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, 1500 des Vétérinaires, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 7C6, Canada
Interests: human-animal bond; animal pain; pain assessment and quantification; pain management; artificial intelligence; pharmacology

Prof. Dr. Piotr Tryjanowski

Website
Section Board Member

Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71 C, 60-625 Poznań, Poland
Interests: behavioural ecology; climate impact on animals; farmland birds; urban ecology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Dr. Raffaella Tudisco

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Napoli Federico II, 80100 Naples, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; nutrigenomics

Dr. Simon Turner

Website
Section Board Member

Animal & Veterinary Sciences, SRUC, Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
Interests: pigs; social behaviour; Animal Behaviour and Welfare

Dr. Barbara Tzschentke

Website
Section Board Member

Faculty of Life Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Interests: poultry/avian physiology; incubation physiology; prenatal and perinatal development; critical developmental periods; programming and malprogramming of regulatory systems; long-lasting and transgenerational effects; neuronal hypothalamic plasticity
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Vicente Urios

Website
Section Board Member

Vertebrates Zoology Research Group, University of Alicante, Apdo. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
Interests: zoology; ornithology; birds of prey; bird migration; mammalogy; carnivores; animal behavior; GPS tracking

Prof. Dr. Jarmo Valaja

Website
Section Board Member

Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: poultry nutrition; broiler nutrition

Prof. Dr. Efstratios D. Valakos

Website
Section Board Member

1. Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece
2. Museum of Zoology, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece
Interests: physiological and ecological adaptations of reptiles and land snail in Mediterranean-type ecosystems; study of life history traits; comparative biology; thermal biology; predation; antipredatory mechanisms; insularity; conservation of endemic species; phylogeny of reptiles; comparative morphometrics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Dr. Paola Maria Valsecchi

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: animal behavior; animal welfare; human-dog relationship; dog cognition
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Steven van Cruchten

Website
Section Board Member

Comparative Perinatal Development, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical, Pharmaceutical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
Interests: pig; translational; pediatrics; neonatal; pharmaceuticals

Dr. Berndt Janse Van Rensburg

Website
Section Board Member

School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: eco-acoustics or soundscapes; systematic conservation planning; biodiversity; conservation science; endangered species

Dr. Marta Vascellari

Website
Section Board Member

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: veterinary oncology; epidemiology; pathology; infectious diseases
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. D. N. Rao Veeramachaneni

Website
Section Board Member

1. Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Interests: andrology and reproductive toxicology; mixed animal; wildlife; zoo animals

Dr. Antonio Velarde

Website
Section Board Member

Institut de Recerca I Technologia Agroalimentaries, Caldes de Montbui, Spain
Interests: animal welfare; animal behavior; welfare at slaughter

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Veneziano

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples ‘‘Federico II’’, Via F. Delpino, 1-80137 Naples, Italy
Interests: parasitology; canine vector-borne diseases
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Dr. Oriol Vidal

Website
Section Board Member

Laboratori d’Ictiologia Genètica, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universitat de Girona, C/Maria Aurèlia Capmany 40, 17003 Girona, Spain
Interests: molecular genetics; molecular markers; plumage coloration; fur coloration; candidate gene

Prof. Dr. Massimo Vignoli

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Località Piano D’ Accio, 64100 Teramo, Italy
Interests: diagnostic imaging; radiology; ultrasound; CT; MRI; PET; radiation therapy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Daniele Vigo

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Veterinary, Medicine (DIMEVET), University of Milan, via Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
Interests: veterinary physiology; endocrinology and reproduction animals animal welfare; stress and lactation 3D cellular culture system; neorgans and pseudorgans Controlled; release technology; biotechnology and nanotechnology

Dr. Amit Vikram

Website
Section Board Member

Intralytix, Columbia, MD, USA
Interests: food safety; antimicrobial resistance; foodborne bacteria; phage biocontrol
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Dr. Rudolf von May

Website
Section Board Member

Biology Program, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA 93012, USA
Interests: ecology and evolution; wildlife conservation; systematics of amphibians and reptiles
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Milka Vrecl

Website
Section Board Member

Institute of Preclinical Sciences, Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Gerbičeva 60, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: membrane receptors; intracellular signaling; molecular biology; histology; cell culture; confocal microscopy; pig; sheep; rabbit; rat

Dr. Agnieszka Waclawik

Website
Section Board Member

Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Tuwima 10, 10-748 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: endocrinology and reproductive biology; animal physiology

Prof. Dr. Hermann Wagner

Website
Section Board Member

Department of Biology, Institute for Biology II (Zoology), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Interests: behaviour; neuroethology; sensory physiology; conservation; ornithology

Prof. Dr. Fang Wang

Website
Section Board Member

College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
Interests: crab behavioral ecology; aquaculture ecology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Dr. Shengchen Wang

Website
Section Board Member

College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225000, China
Interests: chicken; mineral nutrition; oxidative stress; transcriptional regulation; skeletal muscle
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Prof. Dr. Xiaodan Wang

Website
Section Board Member

School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Interests: aquatic animal nutrition; comparative physiology; stress adaptation; osmoregulation; genetic evolution
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Journal Menu

Journal Browser

Editorial Board

Members

Further Information

Guidelines

MDPI Initiatives

Follow MDPI